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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Bed to Bench And A Giveaway

I’m so excited to be celebrating one year of blogging! I never thought I would have enough to share for a whole year so I have surprised myself and hope I have inspired you.

I appreciate each and everyone one of my followers. I’m so honored that you like what I do and as a reward I have put together a giveaway for you.

This giveaway includes: a mirror painted “Duck Egg Blue” and turned into a chalkboard; a pair of vintage style curtain tie-backs; a set of four shabby, pink, outlet plates; French script, burlap ribbon; six drawer pulls from Hobby Lobby; and a lovely, green, ribbon scarf that I knit myself.

Here are some close ups of each item.

There are four ways to enter each one gives you a chance to win:

Become a follower of my blog either with GFC, LF, or Networked blogs and leave a comment. If you are already a follower just leave a comment.

“Like” me on Facebook and come back and leave a comment.

Share my giveaway on your blog and come back and leave a comment.

Follow me on Pinterest and leave a comment.

I will chose a winner using random.org on Friday, July 20, 2012. Good luck.

Now I want to share how I transformed an old bed head and foot board into a garden/porch bench.

Here is the after:

First, I told my helper what I wanted to do and how to go about getting started. (By the way my helper on this project was my son-in-law, Jeremy, who also did all the carpentry work in my kitchen renovation.)

We took the footboard and measured in 14” on each side and cut the ends off. We then attached the end pieces at a 90 degree angle on the front of the head board. This was a full size bed so the foot board had to be cut. A smaller bed may not need to be cut down.

I chose fourteen inches because this is the usual depth of a chair.Once the foot board ends were screwed into each side we added 2 x 4’s across the width for the seat.

As you can see here we cut two pieces of 2 x 4 and screwed them into the inside of each end two inches lower than the top so the seat would be flush with the ends of the bench. Did that make sense? The picture should help you understand.

I then filled in all the screw holes and rough spots with wood filler. Once that was good and dry I sanded the whole piece down and cleaned it. After that I painted it top and bottom with primer and then two coats of an outdoor, semi-gloss, white paint.

I painted the whole bench so that it would be suitable to use outside.

After it was dry (a couple of days later) I stenciled the floral vine design on the center panels and painted the tops of the post a pretty green. I just loved how it turned out and if I had a porch I would probably have kept it. lol

I’m looking for a pretty bed to make another one, but not having much luck. Not all head and foot boards will look as good as this one does and I’m kind of picky.

I hope you have enjoyed this makeover and are all fired up to make your own porch bench. I have to get back to preparing for my 4th of July party. I’ll share pictures and a couple of projects I did for my party later in the week.

Wow!! You always do the most amazing work. I love the bench. It turned out great. Congratulations on your one year anniversary. I love, love, love the giveaway!!!! Oh, I want to win that chalkboard. :) Thanks for the giveaway.

That is just gorgeous. Fantastic job on the bench! Very impressed. Visiting from More the Merrier. Would love it if you would share this at my Make it Pretty Monday at The Dedicated House. http://thededicatedhouse.blogspot.com/2012/07/make-it-pretty-monday-week-4.html Wishing you a grand evening. Toodles, Kathryn @TheDedicatedHouse

Love the bed to bench project! I have seen some beds at Goodwill and have thought about trying this, but just couldn't decide! But, yours looks great! Congrats on one year of blogging! I have only been at it for 4 months, but I am loving it! I am your newest "linky" follower!

I love this giveaway this chalkboard is perfect for my wedding! I would love to win this giveaway! Thank you for the opportunity to enter this giveaway! I'm a follower of your blog via GFC! Good luck to everyone who has enter this giveaway!

I am following you on Pinterest! I am determined to win this prize pack. . . Lol! Seriously, it is fun to see what others pin and I know I will find lots of great inspiration from your boards! Thanks for the additional entry!

I've had the perfect head and foot board for this project for three years. I haven't done it because I didn't have anywhere in my house to put it! Thanks for the great idea of putting it on the porch! I love your stenciled details.

I'm hosting my first linky party "One Creative Weekend" at OneCreativeMommy.com. I'd love for you to visit and link up this idea or anything else you'd like to share.

Congrats on the anniversary. and the bed/bench is a fab idea.I found this through Thriving on Thursdays. I have linked in a corned beef hash cakes recipe using corned beef leftovers. I selected the right picture but the linky thing went crazy, so you will have to click through to see the picture. Have a great week.

sorry, I just re-read the ways t enter and realised that I had to leave a separate comment for each part so this is to say that I am a pinterest follower too. I have just had a quick look at your pinterest pages and I am sure I will have fun looking through them. we seem to have similar tastes.

I love the bench ! I found you from Nifty Thrifty Sunday... I've seen so many headboards at local thrift stores, and have thought about what I could use them for other than a headboard... And I've been needing a bench for my porch. I hope one day I can muster up the courage to do this ! LOL. Thanks for sharing ! I love it ! Im now following you, too.

Nothing else to say, but how much I love it. What a great tutorial! Hope you'll share at Sunday's Best this Sunday. Also wanted to say thanks for stopping by and letting me know how much you liked my cottage mantel. I am now following you on Facebook. Great work girl!

Thank you so much for following me and for guiding me to your blog. It's very lovely and a big congratulations on your blogiversary. I just celebrated my first year last month and had a giveaway of some of my art that I created and made. As to the chair, it was nothing more than a leftover piece of paneling or plywood. We did this with another chair I painted and believe it or not, but it holds up great! I'm going over to your FB and P pages right now.

I found your blog through VINTAGE STREET DESIGNS! Very LOVELY and the give-a-way is AWESOME! I am a follower now and enjoy your creativity...your style! Be back soon! From one sweetie to another~~~~Roxie

Hello Peggy, congratulations on your 1 year blogiversary! It is so fun and I know you'll love it for a very long time! I love your giveaway - gorgeous items - I do appreciate you offering and I hope you stop and join in my Home and Garden Thursday party posted each Wednesday at 6 pm EST.KathyA Delightsome Life

I am really impressed with this bench that you made from a headboard and footboard. My only question is, if it was possible, why would you not turn the stencil over so that the pattern images itself instead of showing the same direction? If you used a plastic or even a good paper stencil, it could have been turned over to have a mirror image of the other side of the bench back. Just a thought...